Episode description

Symbolist, curator, creator, and editor of a new version of Caligula Thomas Negovan discusses artistic and spiritual responses to the deadening effects of industrialism.

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About Thomas Negovan

Thomas Negovan is a writer, musician, and art historian from Chicago. He regularly lectures on Art Nouveau and Weimar era Berlin cabaret. In 2011 Negovan was the first artist to have recorded and released a song on wax cylinder in nearly a century. Later that year he presented a TEDx lecture on his experiences with archaic recording technologies titled By Popular Demand.​​

His first short film, Aurora, premiered in a rough cut on January 13, 2018 at the Century Guild Museum of Art with an accompanying exhibition of original costume designs, tintype photos taken on the set, and original props from the film. The final version premiered was released to the festival circuit in late 2018 and throughout 2019 and 2020, winning numerous awards in America and Japan. The new edit of Caligula (MMXX version) has been completed and will be released in 2023.

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